I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.

...tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside.

I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

When people count me out, that gets me motivated.

As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel.

I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.